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First name(s) / Surname(s) / Joshua Burkholder
Address / via Menabrea 24, 20159 Milano (Italy)
Telephone(s) / 039 329 600 6438
E-mail(s) /
Nationality / American
Date of birth / 26 October 1983
Gender / Male
Desired employment / Occupational field / Translator
Work experience
Dates / 08/2006 →
Occupation or position held / Freelance Translator
Main activities and responsibilities / Translations of hundreds of small to medium sized documents, especially from Italian to English and French to English, some also from Spanish to English. The topics I worked in include: business (press releases, contracts, brochures and reports); journalism (articles for websites and print magazines, interviews); literary (essays, academic papers, short fiction); art (press releases, critical pieces and interviews for various Italian contemporary art galleries and artists); oeno-gastronomy (brochures on wines, restaurant menus, a website for a cantina); other various translations.
Name and address of employer / Freelance
Type of business or sector / Translation
Dates / September 2008 - September 2010
Occupation or position held / Editor/translator
Main activities and responsibilities / Editing, translation, writing of original content, and proofreading for Toolazytodoit.com, as well as other websites.
Name and address of employer / Loft Media Publishing Srl
via L. Ornato 55, 20162 Milano (Italy)
Type of business or sector / Publisher
Dates / January 2007 - June 2010
Occupation or position held / English Teacher
Main activities and responsibilities / Teaching English (business English, grammar) to individual students and group classes.
Name and address of employer / inlingua School of Languages Srl
Via San Prospero 4, 20121 Milano (Italy)
Type of business or sector / Language learning
Education and training
Dates / September 2002 - June 2006
Title of qualification awarded / Bachelor's Degree with Honors in Comparative Literature
Principal subjects / occupational skills / Study of literature in the following languages: Ancient Greek, Latin, Italian, French, English
Name and type of organisation providing education and training / University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California (United States); Università degli studi of Trento (semester abroad)
Personal skills and competences
Mother tongue(s) / English
Other language(s)
Self-assessment / Understanding / Speaking / W r i t i n g
European level (*) / Listening / Reading / Spoken interaction / Spoken production
Italian / C2 / Proficient user / C2 / Proficient user / C2 / Proficient user / C2 / Proficient user / C1 / Proficient user
French / C1 / Proficient user / C2 / Proficient user / B2 / Independent user / B2 / Independent user / B2 / Independent user
Spanish / Castilian / C1 / Proficient user / C2 / Proficient user / B1 / Independent user / B1 / Independent user / B1 / Independent user
(*) Common European Framework of Reference (CEF) level
Social skills and competences / Have lived abroad for several years, adapt well in multicultural situations and environments, I am intellectually and culturally curious.
Organisational skills and competences / My translation clients value my ability to work under tight deadlines and my availability for urgent, last minute projects.
Artistic skills and competences / Erudite and passionate knowledge of the English language and usage, a wide literary culture in 6 languages.

* Examples of translations done in the past are available on request. I am also happy to perform any (brief) competence test.

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